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05-25-2010, 03:32 PM
Ex-Detroit mayor sentenced to 5 years in prison
Kilpatrick violated probation by failing to report assets, meet conditions
AP
May 25, 2010
DETROIT - A judge sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to five years in prison for violating the terms of his probation on an obstruction of justice conviction.
Kilpatrick asked Judge David Groner to show him compassion during the Tuesday hearing. But Groner said "that ship has sailed."
Kilpatrick, 39, was led from the courtroom in handcuffs.
Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in 2008 after sexually explicit text messages became public, showing he had lied under oath about an affair with a staff member in a whistle-blowers' lawsuit.
He resigned, served 99 days in jail, agreed to give up his law license, repay the city $1 million, and stay out of politics for five years.
After he was released from jail in February 2009, he found a job as a medical software salesman with Dallas-based Covisint. Since then, he has said he is working on his marriage and trying to be a better father to his three sons. He also has been making $3,000 monthly payments to the city of Detroit, saying he hopes to repay everything he owes.
But prosecutors contended he continued to lie — that Kilpatrick could afford to give more and had intentionally hid assets.
As of Friday, Kilpatrick had paid $139,223 toward restitution, according to Corrections officials.
Plans already had been made to hold Kilpatrick in a jail in Hamtramck, an enclave of Detroit, if he's ordered locked up, Wayne County sheriff's spokeswoman Paula Bridges said.
Kilpatrick violated probation by failing to report assets, meet conditions
AP
May 25, 2010
DETROIT - A judge sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to five years in prison for violating the terms of his probation on an obstruction of justice conviction.
Kilpatrick asked Judge David Groner to show him compassion during the Tuesday hearing. But Groner said "that ship has sailed."
Kilpatrick, 39, was led from the courtroom in handcuffs.
Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in 2008 after sexually explicit text messages became public, showing he had lied under oath about an affair with a staff member in a whistle-blowers' lawsuit.
He resigned, served 99 days in jail, agreed to give up his law license, repay the city $1 million, and stay out of politics for five years.
After he was released from jail in February 2009, he found a job as a medical software salesman with Dallas-based Covisint. Since then, he has said he is working on his marriage and trying to be a better father to his three sons. He also has been making $3,000 monthly payments to the city of Detroit, saying he hopes to repay everything he owes.
But prosecutors contended he continued to lie — that Kilpatrick could afford to give more and had intentionally hid assets.
As of Friday, Kilpatrick had paid $139,223 toward restitution, according to Corrections officials.
Plans already had been made to hold Kilpatrick in a jail in Hamtramck, an enclave of Detroit, if he's ordered locked up, Wayne County sheriff's spokeswoman Paula Bridges said.